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Mayor Daniel Lurie is talking tough with a new plan to force drug addicts into treatment at a "sobering center" run by the Sheriff's Office.
We talked to users on the street and experts who say, well, it's not that simple.
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We talked to users on the street and experts who say, well, it's not that simple.
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Sit it off
A street-level view of Mayor Lurie’s new sobering center plan
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November 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Mayor Daniel Lurie is talking tough with a new plan to force drug addicts into treatment at a "sobering center" run by the Sheriff's Office.
We talked to users on the street and experts who say, well, it's not that simple.
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We talked to users on the street and experts who say, well, it's not that simple.
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Jollibee Watch continues with this look inside. We have an interior, people! sf.gazetteer.co/jollibee-wat...
Jollibee Watch, November 21, 2025: A very unofficial look inside
Someone got inside the downtown SF Jollibee’s and gave us a first look, but there’s still no word on an official opening date
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November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Jollibee Watch continues with this look inside. We have an interior, people! sf.gazetteer.co/jollibee-wat...
Pre-pandemic, the 1.2 million-square-foot mall at 865 Market St. hosted nine stories of popular brands, a movie theater, and spa. Now it’s 95% vacant. Olivia went for one last meal before the whole place flatlines. sf.gazetteer.co/my-sad-lunch...
My sad lunch at the San Francisco Centre
A final meal where brick and mortar went to die
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November 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Pre-pandemic, the 1.2 million-square-foot mall at 865 Market St. hosted nine stories of popular brands, a movie theater, and spa. Now it’s 95% vacant. Olivia went for one last meal before the whole place flatlines. sf.gazetteer.co/my-sad-lunch...
Turns out a rich girl who became famous for her richness is a less than ideal messenger to talk about inequality: sf.gazetteer.co/becca-bloom-...
Becca Bloom is the gift that keeps on giving
San Francisco’s favorite TikToker is on a charm offensive after (finally) catching some heat for her ludicrous wealth
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November 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Turns out a rich girl who became famous for her richness is a less than ideal messenger to talk about inequality: sf.gazetteer.co/becca-bloom-...
Mayors promote their agendas to constituents of all political stripes. But Daniel Lurie’s decision to headline a fundraiser for ConnectedSF is more complicated than it appeared:
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Strange bedfellows
ConnectedSF, ‘not just one more SF group,’ hosted Mayor Lurie to speak for six and half minutes at its Celebrating the Power of People gathering Monday
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November 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Mayors promote their agendas to constituents of all political stripes. But Daniel Lurie’s decision to headline a fundraiser for ConnectedSF is more complicated than it appeared:
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Can a tech company use a well-known meme from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”? We asked an expert and checked in with Charlie Day’s management who hadn’t seen the ads: sf.gazetteer.co/charlie-days...
Charlie Day’s team didn’t know about those tech billboards
San Francisco-based AI company Kilo Code plastered the city with ads riffing on a popular meme from ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.’ That was news to the actor’s Los Angeles-based gang
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November 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Can a tech company use a well-known meme from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”? We asked an expert and checked in with Charlie Day’s management who hadn’t seen the ads: sf.gazetteer.co/charlie-days...
Of all the possible scenarios for Warner Bros. Discovery in the streaming age, a modest proposal from @habermatt.bsky.social on the (ex-)media power couple that should take over the legacy studio: sf.gazetteer.co/a-modest-pro...
A modest proposal for Warner Bros. Discovery
Of all possible scenarios for the legacy studio in the streaming age, this one is by far the best
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November 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Of all the possible scenarios for Warner Bros. Discovery in the streaming age, a modest proposal from @habermatt.bsky.social on the (ex-)media power couple that should take over the legacy studio: sf.gazetteer.co/a-modest-pro...
For Analog City, @habermatt.bsky.social browsed the pulp novels at Kayo Books on Post Street: sf.gazetteer.co/pulps-unbound
Pulps unbound
For three decades, Kayo Books has sold the kinds of books your grandparents wouldn’t be caught dead reading
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November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
For Analog City, @habermatt.bsky.social browsed the pulp novels at Kayo Books on Post Street: sf.gazetteer.co/pulps-unbound
ChatGPT can speak and think (almost) like a human — but can it act? A new play currently running at The Marsh puts the chatbot's dramatic chops to the test.
@cydhayes.bsky.social reviews "Before I Forget":
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@cydhayes.bsky.social reviews "Before I Forget":
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Exit, pursued by ChatGPT
Adam Strauss’s ‘Before I Forget’ puts AI centerstage whether audiences want it there or not
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November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
ChatGPT can speak and think (almost) like a human — but can it act? A new play currently running at The Marsh puts the chatbot's dramatic chops to the test.
@cydhayes.bsky.social reviews "Before I Forget":
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@cydhayes.bsky.social reviews "Before I Forget":
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Let's talk shopping IRL at Chat Room: Analog
The enduring appeal of shopping IRL
Ben Ospital and Lindsey Hansen join the Chat Room lineup to share their methodical approaches to physical retail in a fast fashion world
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November 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Let's talk shopping IRL at Chat Room: Analog
Biz owner and Sunset political activist Albert Chow was on Mayor Lurie’s shortlist for District 4 supervisor.
Chow gave us an inside look into the vetting process he went through.
Could he be called up to bat after the Beya Alcaraz disaster?
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Chow gave us an inside look into the vetting process he went through.
Could he be called up to bat after the Beya Alcaraz disaster?
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‘It’s the ninth inning, two outs, two strikes’
Before Beya Alcaraz struck out, Albert Chow took a swing for D4 supervisor. Could it be his turn at bat again?
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November 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Biz owner and Sunset political activist Albert Chow was on Mayor Lurie’s shortlist for District 4 supervisor.
Chow gave us an inside look into the vetting process he went through.
Could he be called up to bat after the Beya Alcaraz disaster?
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Chow gave us an inside look into the vetting process he went through.
Could he be called up to bat after the Beya Alcaraz disaster?
FREE STORY: sf.gazetteer.co/its-the-nint...
Analog Bags—sacks filled with tactile distractions like books and knitting—are a welcome break from phones. @jzigoris.bsky.social asked San Franciscans about the things they carry: sf.gazetteer.co/whats-in-you...
What’s in your analog bag?
The latest device-free trend contains everything from knitting to notebooks to Tolstoy
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November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Analog Bags—sacks filled with tactile distractions like books and knitting—are a welcome break from phones. @jzigoris.bsky.social asked San Franciscans about the things they carry: sf.gazetteer.co/whats-in-you...
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie this week disclosed a new “sobering center,” and a hard line on drug arrests and treatment. “If they don’t take that option, then they go to jail,” he said:
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Somewhere between jail and a hospital
The Mayor is trying to learn some new moves as he tries “going hard” on the drug crisis
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November 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie this week disclosed a new “sobering center,” and a hard line on drug arrests and treatment. “If they don’t take that option, then they go to jail,” he said:
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This week, unionized workers at dozens of Starbucks across the US kicked off a strike. Their agenda echoes those of coffee chains in the Bay and around the country that have organized in recent years: sf.gazetteer.co/tempest-in-a...
Tempest in a red cup
As the CEO of Starbucks takes home 6,666 times the salary of his average worker, baristas in the Bay Area and beyond are going on strike
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November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This week, unionized workers at dozens of Starbucks across the US kicked off a strike. Their agenda echoes those of coffee chains in the Bay and around the country that have organized in recent years: sf.gazetteer.co/tempest-in-a...
SCOOP: A local tattoo artist said she was contacted by the City about an unpermitted tattoo event at last month's TechCrunch Disrupt convention.
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Department of Public Health reached out to local tattoo artist about permitting after TechCrunch Disrupt
Tattd, a tattoo app, put a Hayes Valley artist and her clients at risk for an off-the-books pop-up last month
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November 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
SCOOP: A local tattoo artist said she was contacted by the City about an unpermitted tattoo event at last month's TechCrunch Disrupt convention.
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On any given day, professional forager Bryan Jessop fulfills orders for a broad list of mushrooms, flowers, grasses, lettuces, herbs and garnishes found growing wild below foot for Michelin-star restaurants.
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The searchers
Off the beaten path with Bryan Jessop, the forager supplying San Francisco’s Michelin-star restaurants
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November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
On any given day, professional forager Bryan Jessop fulfills orders for a broad list of mushrooms, flowers, grasses, lettuces, herbs and garnishes found growing wild below foot for Michelin-star restaurants.
sf.gazetteer.co/the-searchers
sf.gazetteer.co/the-searchers
@jzigoris.bsky.social reports from inside The Box SF in SoMa, where 15 million pieces of ephemera can yours. sf.gazetteer.co/save-all
Save all
15 million individual items, some dating back to the 1600s, are waiting to be discovered at The Box SF
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November 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
@jzigoris.bsky.social reports from inside The Box SF in SoMa, where 15 million pieces of ephemera can yours. sf.gazetteer.co/save-all
Caterina Fake's work bridges the worlds of art, literature, film, culture, and technology — and, of course, the analog and the digital.
The Flickr co-founder will sit down with our editor-in-chief Matt Haber to discuss analog life in the digital world.
The Flickr co-founder will sit down with our editor-in-chief Matt Haber to discuss analog life in the digital world.
Caterina Fake to headline Chat Room: Analog as keynote interview
The founder and artist sits down with Gazetteer SF editor-in-chief Matt Haber to discuss analog life in the digital world
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November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Caterina Fake's work bridges the worlds of art, literature, film, culture, and technology — and, of course, the analog and the digital.
The Flickr co-founder will sit down with our editor-in-chief Matt Haber to discuss analog life in the digital world.
The Flickr co-founder will sit down with our editor-in-chief Matt Haber to discuss analog life in the digital world.
For his latest San Francisco Plays Itself film column, @yourprotagonistwt.bsky.social revisits ‘What’s Up Doc?,’ Peter Bogdanovich’s screwball rom-com starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal: sf.gazetteer.co/wild-in-the-...
Wild in the streets
With a little zaniness and a lot of Streisand, Peter Bogdanovich’s ‘What’s Up Doc?’ brought chaos to a city that was trying to tidy itself up
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November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
For his latest San Francisco Plays Itself film column, @yourprotagonistwt.bsky.social revisits ‘What’s Up Doc?,’ Peter Bogdanovich’s screwball rom-com starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal: sf.gazetteer.co/wild-in-the-...
Mayor Daniel Lurie keeps having to say that "Ocean Beach will not be Miami Beach" while discussing his contentious zoning plan for SF.
You can thank former supe Aaron Peskin for the slogan.
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You can thank former supe Aaron Peskin for the slogan.
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Beach, please
Aaron Peskin has been comparing Ocean Beach to Miami Beach for years. Now everyone else — including the mayor — is, too
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November 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Mayor Daniel Lurie keeps having to say that "Ocean Beach will not be Miami Beach" while discussing his contentious zoning plan for SF.
You can thank former supe Aaron Peskin for the slogan.
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You can thank former supe Aaron Peskin for the slogan.
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Max Blue visits a basement in SoMa where Jeff Gunderson and Becky Alexander manage the SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive. sf.gazetteer.co/in-the-sfai-...
In the SFAI archive
Down in a SoMa basement, two archivists are keeping the spirit — and thousands of artifacts — of the San Francisco Art Institute alive
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November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Max Blue visits a basement in SoMa where Jeff Gunderson and Becky Alexander manage the SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive. sf.gazetteer.co/in-the-sfai-...
For our latest installment of #AnalogCity, Joel Rosenblatt visited San Francisco Center for the Book and learned about the hands-on process of letterpress printing: sf.gazetteer.co/the-original...
The original movable type
A visit to the San Francisco Center for the Book where the presses never stop
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November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
For our latest installment of #AnalogCity, Joel Rosenblatt visited San Francisco Center for the Book and learned about the hands-on process of letterpress printing: sf.gazetteer.co/the-original...
Restaurant Gary Danko is an SF institution that helped put the city on the national fine-dining map.
25 years later, they're somehow still packing it in, even with a menu full of vintage hits. How is Danko doing it?
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25 years later, they're somehow still packing it in, even with a menu full of vintage hits. How is Danko doing it?
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Waiting for Danko
Tastes have changed a lot since 1999, but Gary Danko and his Fisherman’s Wharf restaurant have not. That’s a good thing. A very good thing
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November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Restaurant Gary Danko is an SF institution that helped put the city on the national fine-dining map.
25 years later, they're somehow still packing it in, even with a menu full of vintage hits. How is Danko doing it?
New from @eddiekimx.bsky.social: (GIFT LINK) sf.gazetteer.co/waiting-for-...
25 years later, they're somehow still packing it in, even with a menu full of vintage hits. How is Danko doing it?
New from @eddiekimx.bsky.social: (GIFT LINK) sf.gazetteer.co/waiting-for-...
In SF, the Buy Nothing group has more than 116k members who give away their stuff and help each other out. Last week, this page and others around the country were deactivated over a trademark dispute. Here's a look into the fight for free stuff: sf.gazetteer.co/the-fight-to...
The fight to save Buy Nothing
In the midst of a resources crunch, Facebook shut down Buy Nothing mutual aid groups over an alleged trademark infringement
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November 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
In SF, the Buy Nothing group has more than 116k members who give away their stuff and help each other out. Last week, this page and others around the country were deactivated over a trademark dispute. Here's a look into the fight for free stuff: sf.gazetteer.co/the-fight-to...
Analog acts we have lined up for Chat Room on Nov. 19:
-A crochet jammer
-2 typewriter poets
-A punk zine publisher
-A vinyl DJ duo
See you there!
-A crochet jammer
-2 typewriter poets
-A punk zine publisher
-A vinyl DJ duo
See you there!
Crochet away and dance to vinyl at Chat Room: Analog
We hope these embodiments of analog San Francisco inspire attendees to make and do their own amazing things
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November 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Analog acts we have lined up for Chat Room on Nov. 19:
-A crochet jammer
-2 typewriter poets
-A punk zine publisher
-A vinyl DJ duo
See you there!
-A crochet jammer
-2 typewriter poets
-A punk zine publisher
-A vinyl DJ duo
See you there!